The Developmental Psychobiology Lab’s (DPB lab) research focuses on early life influences on development. During pregnancy and the early postnatal years, environmental factors are more likely to exert programming, or long-term, effects on the child’s development. Our lab’s research includes three lines: first, influences of prenatal maternal mental wellbeing on children’s health and behavioural development; second, development of the physiological stress system in children, and its relation to behavioural and emotional regulation and physical health. And third, the development of the intestinal microbiota and its relation to children’s health, behavioural and emotion regulation, and physiological stress system.
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- Roseriet joins podcast episodeRoseriet Beijers joined podcast-makers Hanneke Hendrix and Alex van der Hulst in their special episode on parenting myths and facts. They talk about contradictory parenting advices and its applicability in the daily life of a parent. Listen to the…
- Radio 1 interviewLast week Carolina de Weerth was live on Radio 1! In a recent study, Japanese and Italian scientists studied how holding could influence a baby’s crying before going to sleep. They found that five minutes of carrying followed by…
- ISPNE 2022Two PhD students from our lab, Henrik and Nina visited the conference of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE) this month. The conference was held in Chicago and was visited by researchers all over the world interested in hormones…
- Circustheater voor baby’sDancer Emilie Weisse, using scientific knowledge provided by BRC researcher Sabine Hunnius, created a theatre show for babies from 6 to 18 months. The show, based on scientific insights, contains a fluid performance of sounds, colour and movement, in…
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